The Online Shopping Thread

This is a discussion on The Online Shopping Thread within Gadgets, Computers & Software, part of the Shifting gears category; Originally Posted by Eddy
How good or bad is the Snapdeal Diwali sale today ? Anyone buying anything ?
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With Amazon and Snapdeal competing with FK's Big Billion Sale. I think if one spends some time over the next 2-3 days across these 3 sites, some deals even better than what is being advertised today can be had.

Overall looks like there are some very competitive deals across these sites.

I am looking out for a DSLR, and found Canon EOS1200D with two lenses on Snapdeal for 23k. I am confused between this and Nikon D3300. Anybody got some pointers?

I bought 1200D (with dual lens kit) last year from Amazon at the same price (plus some cash back - effective price was ~ 19,000). Its a once in a year deal, not to be missed. I absolutely love my 1200D. Don't know much about D3300 but for starters, 1200D is the best camera out there in terms of amateur photography.

Will choose between MotoG 3rd Gen and Lenovo K3 Note. I guess both will be available on flipkart tomorrow.

I would personally recommend Moto G3.

My BIL bought a K3 Note 2 months back, which was blazing fast when he showed me new.
Saw it yesterday again, and it is a bit laggy, with auto rotate, launching dial pad, and opening FB and Whatsapp taking a few seconds.
Might be due to the number of apps open, or more RAM usage, but somehow didn't like the performance.
The form factor (build / design) looks good though.

I am using Moto G3 since 1 month and it is still blazing fast, with 1.5GB of RAM available at any given time. The max lowest available RAM I encountered was around 1088 MB (1GB). Which is why it is still fast.

Covers and Cases prices are crazy all over the e-commerce websites. A quick walk to the nearby local shops gave me a cover for Rs.150, which was retailing for Rs.399 on all ecommerce websites.

I was looking for internal hard drives on Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal last week.

The prices all seemed a little high and most of them would charge me for delivery as well. I am averse to paying shipping charges for most online orders.

So I turned to eBay as my last resort. I immediately found the prices cheaper and there was a 8.5% discount coupon as well as 5% cashback if paying through PayUMoney. So in essence, an order that should've cost me Rs. 2,925 for the 500GB 2.5" Internal Hard Drive and Rs. 949 for the Dell Inspiron N4110 keyboard, ie. Rs. 3,874 in total cost me around Rs. 3350 inclusive of the cashback!

Order was placed on Friday(October 9th). The bitter pill(or so I thought) was the slow delivery. It would be delivered on the 17th of October.

But, the items were shipped on Saturday through FedEx and are out for delivery today(correction, has been delivered)!

Flipkart said 13-17 Oct is the billion day sale. Amazon saw this and came up with a Great Indian Festive Sale. Snapdeal did not want to be left behind. No time to decide on a fancy name. So decided to simply go with first upcoming pan India festival they could think off.